Ryder is promoting her role in Ariel Vromen‘s The Iceman, a period piece set mostly in the 1960s and ’70s that stars Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski, a real-life contract killer for the mob in New York and New Jersey who is said to have murdered more than 100 people. Winona plays Shannon’s wife in the film.

Of the role, she tells Interview magazine, “This was something that I’d never done before — this genre, true crime — and my biggest fear was that there would be something romantic about it.”

“I could not watch all of those interviews with Richard Kuklinski that are on YouTube or do a lot of research, because what creeps me out even more than the guy himself is the fascination that other people have with this kind of violence. I mean, I get it, but I also see it as repulsive, because this was not a guy in a situation where this guy was war-torn and it was kill or be killed. He was straight-up murdering people for a lot of money.”

I’ve always loved Winona, her shoplifting issues and all. She was great in The Black Swan and I have high hopes for her in The Iceman.